Handy hint: When reading board game rules (or some such similar scenario) to a mixed-gender group, it's really easy to substitute they/them/their for he/him/his and she/her/hers on the fly while you're reading.

Grumblesaur wrote:Such usage dates back to Middle English in the 1300s.

I bet JanB1 cut class that day.

Sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. Probably used the black death as an excuse. But now? Nothing but pronoun confusion and regret. Stay in school, kids; or one day, hundreds of years later, you'll be sorry...

Grumblesaur wrote:Such usage dates back to Middle English in the 1300s.

I bet JanB1 cut class that day.

Sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. Probably used the black death as an excuse. But now? Nothing but pronoun confusion and regret. Stay in school, kids; or one day, hundreds of years later, you'll be sorry...

Well, let's put it this way: Non-native English speaker learns English nearly all by self-study because English taught in school isn't really helpful. So yeah, cut me some slack and bare with me here, I can only get better. I'm on a nearly B2 English level already, and they taught something like A1 in school (can't really get any worse than that).

Grumblesaur wrote:Such usage dates back to Middle English in the 1300s.

I bet JanB1 cut class that day.

Sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. Probably used the black death as an excuse. But now? Nothing but pronoun confusion and regret. Stay in school, kids; or one day, hundreds of years later, you'll be sorry...

Well, let's put it this way: Non-native English speaker learns English nearly all by self-study because English taught in school isn't really helpful. So yeah, cut me some slack and bare with me here, I can only get better. I'm on a nearly B2 English level already, and they taught something like A1 in school (can't really get any worse than that).

JanB1 wrote:So yeah, cut me some slack and bare with me here, I can only get better.

Just to be perfectly clear, my intentionally ludicrous comment was not intended to be critical in any way; just (hopefully) vaguely entertaining. (Personally I'm unable to converse in anything other than my native language, and have nothing but admiration for those who are skilled in more than one of the things.)

I at one point was minimally competent with latin? Not so much anymore. I tried to figure out how to say "you all are the best" and came up with "estis optima" but I'm pretty sure that is horrifyingly wrong and features redundant grammar, so who knows.

Graf wrote:I at one point was minimally competent with latin? Not so much anymore. I tried to figure out how to say "you all are the best" and came up with "estis optima" but I'm pretty sure that is horrifyingly wrong and features redundant grammar, so who knows.

Psst. I hear this guy named Josh Parnell is making a procedural space game. Apparently he posts Dev logs somewhere around here every week or so. Can anyone point me to the discussion of the most recent log? Thanks.